Specialized Hospital

mcmaster university medical centre, teaching hospital in canada

types of specialised hospitals include trauma centres, rehabilitation hospitals, children s hospitals, seniors (geriatric) hospitals, , hospitals dealing specific medical needs such psychiatric problems (see psychiatric hospital), disease categories such cardiac, oncology, or orthopedic problems, , forth. in germany specialised hospitals called fachkrankenhaus; example fachkrankenhaus coswig (thoracic surgery).

a hospital may single building or number of buildings on campus. many hospitals pre-twentieth-century origins began 1 building , evolved campuses. hospitals affiliated universities medical research , training of medical personnel such physicians , nurses, called teaching hospitals. worldwide, hospitals run on nonprofit basis governments or charities. there few exceptions, e.g. china, government funding constitutes 10% of income of hospitals. (need citation here. chinese sources seem conflicted for-profit/non-profit ratio of hospitals in china)

specialised hospitals can reduce health care costs compared general hospitals. example, narayana health s bangalore cardiac unit, specialised in cardiac surgery, allows greater number of patients. has 3000 beds (more 20 times average american hospital) , in pediatric heart surgery alone, performs 3000 heart operations annually, making far largest such facility in world. surgeons paid on fixed salary instead of per operation, costs hospital drops when number of procedures increases, taking advantage of economies of scale. additionally, argued costs go down specialists become efficient working on 1 production line procedure.